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WORKERS' INSTITUTE TO CELEBRATE FIRST
ANNIVERSARY PLAN A PUBLICATION
The Workers' Institute, 920 S. Ash
land blvd., will next week hold a jubi
lee to celebrate the first anniversary
of its break with the Chicago He
brew Institute.
. It was a year ago that Jacob Loeb,
now president of the school board,
ordered the doors of the Hebrew In
stitute, of which he is president,
closed in the face of hundreds of He
brews who had gone to the institute
to attend a lecture. It happened that
the lecturer was a radical; wealthy
Jews who giye money to keep the
Hebrew Institute going did not want
this, and Jacob Loeb ordered the
doors of the Institute closed, even
after the hall had been rented and
the audience was there.
The result of Loeb's action was the
founding of the Workers' Institute.
The Workers' Institute has pros
pered from the start. It now has a
bigger enrollment in many of its de
partments, especially in classes, than
the Hebrew Institute.
It has never accepted a penny of
outside aid, though wealthy Jews
who do not like Jacob Loeb's auto
cratic way of doing things lave
offered it all the money it wants. It
prefers to be independent, and feels
that no institution can be independ
ent when it is accepting aid or gifts.
It will aot even accept free the
services of noted educators who have
offered their time in the institute's
class rooms; instead it insists on
paying every instructor for his
work.
The big celebration over the -split
with the Hebrew Institute will begin
Sunday when a special edition of the
Labor World will be sold on the West
Side.
Next Friday night the anniversary
celebration and graduation exercises
of the school will be held at West
r Side auditorium. Among those who
' have promised to speak on. this oc
casion are Fj-ank P. Walsh, chair
man of the committee on industrial
relations; Arthur Le Seuer, pres. of
People's college, and N. D. Cochran,
editor of The Day Book. The chil
dren of the radical Sunday School
will present the anti-militarism
sketch, "Shambles."
Sunday, Aug. 13, there will be a
picnic at Atlas Grove, 5500 Craw
ford av.
During the week the institute will
Issue the Workers' Institute Eeview,
a magazine which will be devoted to
radical education and which will
treat fully on the plans of the insti
tute for the future. In it will appear
articles by Eugene V. Debs, Frank P.
Walsh, Arthur Le Seuer, A- S. Tohin
son and N. D. Cochran.
It is planned to make The Review a
monthly publication.
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WOMEN'S PARTY OUT AFTER
"BIGGEST CAMPAIGN FUND"
New York, Aug. 5. To raise big
gest campaign fund of the year is
task to which woman's party has set
itself. Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, chair
man of committee, goes to Newport
today to begin work of forming a
group of 1,000 wealthy women, upon
whom she. will impress need of $500,
000 as starter to organize women
voters against Democartic party.
Miss Alice Paul, national chair
man of Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, who was in New
York yesterday to cpnfer with Mrs.
Belmont, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch and other leaders, would not
admit that woman's party is to hurl
its strength against Democrats.
That, she said, was one of questions
to be settled at the woman's confer
ence which begins at Colorado
Springs, Aug. 10.
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Freehold, N. J. Geo. B. Young,
husband of late Lillian Nordica, lost
fight for possession of million-dollar
estate of singer by ruling of court.